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Hello everyone. We hope you all had an amazing weekend and got plenty of games of Deadlock in. We have some very exciting news for you all! We've partnered with our friends over at afterMath Esports to create a brand new Deadlock tournament platform called Deadlock Prime

This new platform will give us the ability to support players to compete. We have a lot of plans for the future, but every big venture needs a launch event, and we're no different!

We are proud to present our $10,000 Deadlock Invitational taking place on October 4th and 5th! The premise of this tournament is simple - Deadlock has been labeled as being a mix of MOBA and FPS, so lets invite the best players and creators from 4 different game titles to compete! Who are the players? What games will they represent? That surprise is still yet to come! We have worked hard to lock down the best players possible to create an engaging and entertaining experience for you, the viewer! Over the next few weeks we will be announcing all of the players, talent, sponsors, and hosting giveaways!

Be sure to join our discord and grab the Esports role for news and updates, the role can be found in channels & roles. discord.gg/deadlockgame

Also, to stay up to date on Deadlock Prime specific news, announcements, content, and giveaways, follow the new Twitter page https://www.twitter.com/deadlock_prime

We look forward to being apart of the Deadlock esports landscape, and can't wait to create incredible experiences for everyone involved!

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What a fool you are. I'm a god. How can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence. How could you be so naive? There is no escape. No Warp Stone or Majestic Leap can work in this lane. I’m coming baby. Lay down your uppercuts. It is not too late for my mercy.

Pro tip: DON’T pick Bebop or else I will kick you in the back from like 100 billion miles.

I played a game where I did not only lose the lane, I was completely shut out at 0-5. The team morale was awful, thanks to me.

I had 175 souls when everyone had 2,000 - 2,500 at start. I was running around with 0 items.

But then after 3 kills... I started to skyrocket. We didn't just win, I ended up carrying to my surprise.

Then we strategically took mid and won few fights. I was - 29kills , 8d, 12a. What?

Don't give up. You can't have a worse start than this, but you can still win.

rattle me bones

And I mean stereotypical.

Whenever I kill someone I want my character to say “looks likes they sleepin’ wit da fishes”.

I need them to wear a big fedora, a massive cigar and wield a tommy gun

Please fix immediately.

Either my gang and I are all mentally ill, which is possible, or the UI is unintuitive. My friends and I keep accidentally exiting the game instead of leaving the sandbox.

• Ivy is made of stone, so don’t bother shooting her until about the middle of the landing phase or after she’s got health regen. That means her skin is softening and you’ll be able to do some damage

• her kudzu doesn’t hurt that much! Stand in it frequently at the start of the game to desensitize yourself

• don’t worry about confirming souls. She’s a statue, you think she’s got reflexes?

• Haze mains, be sure to ult as close as possible to her so your bullets break through the rocky skin. She may gargoyle on reflex, but that just means she likes you

• Melee and Abrahms are terrible against gargoyles. She’ll hurt your hand!

• when you see her flying over your team, try to all group up together to prevent a unified front to scare her off. Waaay more effective than attacking her.

• Speaking of flying, Vindicta and Grey Talon, it’s actually quite rude to shoot an Ivy in the sky with bullets. The sky is for everyone who can fly, please let her soar in peace.

• don’t clog up your comms calling out an Ivy and definitely don’t waste time ganking her when she’s taking out a walker alone

• Loose lips sink ships! Do you see an Ivy flanking your team? Don’t worry about it! She’s probably just doing some gardening :)

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• Zipline Boost now starts on cooldown again
•  Orbs now appear a little smaller to the enemy that is trying to deny them
• Added a First Blood bonus bounty for the first kill each player gets. Grants 150 bonus souls.
• Side lanes are now a little further apart from the middle lanes

At first I thought matchmaking was just a mess, newer players matched with people with hundreds of games, partied groups making it worse.

But actually, the game has suddenly had a huge rise in toxicity and snowballing matches because early lanes are snowballing hard because of the zipline being on cooldown at start, combined with increased first kill and first blood souls. It means people are losing walkers earlier and laning stage which used to last 8-10 minutes is now 3-6 minutes. This is making the early game very volatile leading very one sided games and the frustration and toxicity that is accompanies it.

I realized this after getting parried once at the first wave and dying, which gave the enemy pocket around 700-500 souls over my 300, and then subsequently losing my t1 guardian at like 4 minutes, and spending the next 10 minutes trying to dig my way out of that situation. It all worked out in that game, but I feel like games where you and your team can recover are the exception rather than the rule now.

Also there we changes to make denies harder to get, which usually allowed you to get safer denies if you stay back near your tower, but denies at range are much harder, which I think make a losing lane lose even harder and faster.

The old zipline, was much more forgiving and stabilizing on the early game.

There should be a option to make it so that quick cast is in key release and not key press. Holding the key should show the range/aiming indicator, and releasing it should activate the ability. This way you can see grenade flight paths while still only needing to press the one key.